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" We pay attention to every demographic in every country, so we're going to focus on building things that teens are going to like, and we're also going to focus on building things that other folks are going to like. "

Mark Zuckerberg

Focus

Pay

Building

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" I updated my grilling app, iGrill, today and it now has Facebook integration that lets you see what other people are grilling right now around the world. Awesome. "

" I like making things. I don't like getting my picture taken. "

" What really motivates people at Facebook is building something that's worthwhile, that they're going to be proud to show to friends and family. "

" When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power. "

" I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress. "

" I mean, we've built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos and share videos and write messages to each other. But it's really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And that's what's so amazing about the scale that it's at today. "

" The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks. "

" We have these services that people love and that are drivers of data usage... and we want to work this out, so that way, it's a profitable model for our partners. "

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" Really, who you are is defined by the people who you know - not even the people that you know, but the people you spend time with and the people that you love and the people that you work with. I guess we show your friends in your profile, but that's kind of different from the information you put in your profile. "

" At Facebook, we build tools to help people connect with the people they want and share what they want, and by doing this we are extending people's capacity to build and maintain relationships. "

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" I do everything on my phone as a lot of people do. "

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" When we are thinking about stuff like embeds, we are not thinking about how we are competing with YouTube. We are thinking about how are we going to make it more useful for people to share stuff on Facebook. "

Mark Zuckerberg

People

" I think a lot of the time there isn't such a black-and-white difference between what's a platform and what's an app. It's really just like the most important apps become platforms. "

" People love photos. Photos originally weren't that big a part of the idea for Facebook, but we just found that people really like them, so we built out this functionality. "

" The biggest mistake we made as a company was betting too much on HTML5. "

" I literally coded Facebook in my dorm room and launched it from my dorm room. I rented a server for $85 a month, and I funded it by putting an ad on the side, and we've funded ever since by putting ads on the side. "

" In addition to building better products, a more open world will also encourage businesses to engage with their customers directly and authentically. More than four million businesses have Pages on Facebook that they use to have a dialogue with their customers. We expect this trend to grow as well. "

" Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both. "